Building in Public

I build a lot of things. My wife says I never share any of them, and she’s right.

This is step one of getting me out of my comfort zone. I’ll list some of the projects I’ve been working on.

Poo-tee-weet

My personal writing system. poo-tee-weet.com is a completely free, no-limits distraction free writing system. Documents are organized via a tag system, and the whole point is two-fold:

1. Provide a joyful place to write. There are better tools for novel writing, but for one-off thinking (blog posts are a great example) I think Poo-tee-weet hits the nail on the head.

2. Support plugins _without a plugin system_. My idea was for users to describe the plugin they want and an AI agent will work with them to bring it to life. That plugin is scoped to that user. Think “replit-as-a-plugin-builder”.

That second idea is live for my account, but I’m too afraid to make it globally available :)

Outloud

An Android app with Android Auto support that provides varied, time-bound vocal exercises.

The idea is super simple: I get my car, pull up Outloud in Android Auto and select 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes. Outloud then generates a lesson from a bank of exercises. I can learn to sing in the car in a guided way.

I actually really love this app. It does one thing very, very well. This is in private testing right now, and I’m the only user. I’d love to actually ship this one.

Skip Static

This one is actually live at https://skipstatic.com/. I wanted to build a modern alternative to Bandzoogle, where instead of templates every user got access to a real rep and designer (who, in turn, delegates to AI). Every website change is a message to your rep, and your website is completely managed for you.

This one has a _lot_ of issues that I need to work through. I have so many reservations about this product. Pricing is the main thing—it needs to be cheap enough that working bands can justify it, but also cost enough to support a real human being available.

At the same time, I actually do get messages from folks wanting to sign up. So that’s cool!

root.site

The same thing as Skip Static but for dentists. This one is even _more_ involved however. I want to provide managed Google Business Page support, coordinate actual photographers for great website pictures, and (someday, if demand asks for it) provide both hipaa-compliant forms and integrations with dental softwares. That’s why it costs more. Plus, I think it’d be valuable to put human eyes on these websites with some regularity.

No signups here yet, but it is live at root.site.

Dental website analyzer

My first ChatGPT plugin. I’m trying to make a genuinely useful plugin for analyzing dental websites. There’s a lot that goes into a good one - you have to serve customers on their phones looking for a quick phone number, potential customers who have anxiety and want to look for the friendliest option, and people who want to make sure their insurance is accepted. At the same time, there exists _another_ set of customers; the dentist, for whom the website is a form of personal branding, and the web designer, who needs to know the technical details that lead to success.

I’m mostly finding it hard to balance the generated report. How do I present highly technical information in a way that doesn’t intimidate the dentist? How do I say “use good images” in a way that doesn’t make a web dev roll their eye? I haven’t figured this out yet.

This isn’t live yet but it’s getting close.

ProofQL

My latest endeavor. Many businesses put Google reviews on their website as a form of social proof that they’re worth trusting. I think I can do one better.

My idea is to put _relevant_ Google reviews on web pages. So for a general contractor, they may have a page dedicated to roofing; my API will filter Google reviews so that the web dev can show just roofing-related reviews.

My goal here is to do this so cheaply that I can provide an insanely generous free tier. We’ll see.